What We Treat

Pelvic pain treatment in Holland.

Aching, burning or sharp pain in the lower abdomen, hips or pelvic floor. Most people are told to strengthen. Very often the real problem is that these muscles cannot relax.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • Pain with sitting that makes a long meeting genuinely hard
  • Painful intimacy that you have not told anyone about
  • Tailbone pain that arrived without an injury
  • A burning or aching in the lower abdomen with no clear pattern
  • Being told your imaging is clear, as though that settles it
  • Doing more Kegels and feeling worse for it

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

Most pelvic pain is not weakness. It is tension.

This is the single most common thing we correct. People arrive having been told to strengthen, and strengthening a pelvic floor that cannot relax makes it worse. Pelvic pain is very often muscles that are gripping and unable to let go, driven by scar tissue, surgery, childbirth, digestive problems, or a nervous system that has been on alert for a long time.

It affects men as well as women, and it is treated in a private room, one-on-one, at your pace. The work is release and coordination first, strength much later if at all. Getting that order right is the difference between improving and going backwards.

A therapist using a pelvis model to explain pelvic pain to a pregnant patient

The Honest Truth

Pelvic pain rarely resolves by being tolerated.

If you keep waiting

  • The nervous system learns the pattern, and learned pain is harder to unlearn
  • You quietly narrow what you do, sit on, and say yes to
  • Guarding spreads into the hips and low back, which then need treating too

If you start this week

  • You know the actual cause by the end of visit one
  • Hands-on relief starts before you leave the building
  • Nothing is done without your consent, and you set the pace

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built for a pelvic floor.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here is what the four phases look like for pelvic pain.

Weeks 1–4

Pain

Calm the pain down.

Release the muscles that are gripping, externally and, only with your consent, internally. Downtraining before anything else.

Weeks 4–8

Prime

Restore coordination.

Breathwork and coordination training to reconnect the diaphragm and the pelvic floor, so the system stops bracing by default.

Weeks 8–12

Perform

Build resilience.

Gentle, graded strengthening once the tissue can relax, plus the movement retraining that keeps the tension from rebuilding.

Weeks 12+

Prevent

Keep it from coming back.

What to do in a flare, what to do around your cycle, and the maintenance that holds the progress.

Kelly and the whole team is so amazing. They are so knowledgeable, and are the absolute best for pelvic floor PT.

Katie S. · via Google

Told to do more Kegels, which made it worse

Chronic pelvic pain typically needs 10 to 16 weeks

Pelvic Pain 10–16 weeks

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

1

Bladder & Bowel Dysfunction

Straining, and still not feeling finished

Learn More 2

Postpartum Recovery

A six-week check that lasted four minutes and cleared you for everything

Learn More 3

Back Pain & Sciatica

Bracing on the sink to stand up straight

Learn More

Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for pelvic pain.

No. We move at your pace and check in often. Everything is done with your comfort, safety and consent in mind, and you can stop or change anything at any point. Many people feel some relief during the first session.

No. Internal work is offered because some of the muscles involved are only reachable that way, but it is always optional and always consented to. If you would rather we worked externally we will, and we will tell you honestly what that changes about the timeline.

Yes. Dr. Marissa Zolton is certified to treat male pelvic floor conditions, which is genuinely hard to find in West Michigan. Pelvic pain in men is common, under-diagnosed, and treatable.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon–Thu 8am–6pm · Fri 8am–12pm
  • (616) 422-7308 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • One-on-one, every visit

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Typical response: under 2 business hours

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